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811.
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition(theguardian.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
812.
Facebook refuses to explain why live torture video wasn't removed soone(theguardian.com)
3 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
813.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
A lot of this report is about RT - Russia Today. No, it's not; if you read the Key Judgements section, the part about the "state-run propaganda machine" is the last and least of the four major areas of influence it cites.
814.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
That's not at all what the report says, of course.
815.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Try driving the wrong direction for a lane long enough and see what happens to you. Or, for that matter, setting up a pop-up restaurant in the middle of Central Park somewhere. Because, you know, the foot traffic and all the opportunity.
816.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward comes to mind. An important decision, for sure. Doesn't have anything to do with the First Amendment, though.
817.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Conducting business is a First Amendment right. That's a pretty peculiar interpretation of the First Amendment, for sure.
818.
David Byrne on not being afraid to fail(thecreativeindependent.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
819.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
If it's not for public safety or something of that nature, I don't see why the government should really care. Aside from public safety, there's a whole lot of reasons -- from measuring how efficient these services really ar
820.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
But do we really want to be crafting a maze of one-off rules for every company just because each of them have something special that we don't want to pay them for? I don't know, and won't pretend to know. Again, it all com
821.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
As said, it all comes down to the merits of the specific regulations (and implicitly, how they jibe with the constitution and existing legislation). But as to the principled, absolutist counterargument that was offered: "they're a
822.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
The problem though is that people are effectively made to work for free if the government can order any organization to publish their private information. But they're not doing that work for "free". They're doing in e
823.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
I don't disagree that this data would be beneficial to the public, but I don't think government should have the right to tell a private organization that they need to hand out their data to whoever wants it. As a "private o
824.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Books are for eggheads; you need to see him live, man. According to a witness at the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch: I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had
825.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Fascinating. That's a very precious quote, indeed. Thanks.
826.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Oh but it was -- a great opportunity for the recruiter to make a few mortgage payments, that is.
827.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Did you know that the Mission used to be an Irish neighborhood, for instance? The point is that it used to be an affordable neighborhood. And the city in general used to be more or less affordable for the middle class, also -- independ
828.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
rumbles ominously about curtailing free speech for journalists. Could you point out where he says this, please? (Dalio's rant is quite long, and I didn't see where this jumped out at first skim).
829.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
As long as we can preserve all of the 100+ year old architecture" "all of" being a straw man, of course.
830.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
The problem could be lessened if NIMBY's would stop trying to dictate how property they don't own should be used (that is, we allow construction). "Howdy, neighbor! I'm gonna build 70'-high sludge containment towe
831.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
It's not that hard to understand, actually.
832.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
We kept thinking: why can't SF be more like BCN? Because you'd have to demolish acres and acres of 100+ year-old architecture (generally considered to be among the planet's most distinctive) to make it that way. And even if
833.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
So he can fly over, and get a closer look at, people living in RVs on the street just a few miles from where his employees eat free steak and sushi every day. Like the Chavez family, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/
834.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
ˈfʀɛmtˌʃɛːmən , or if you will: "FREMT-shay-men". (You need to gurgle a bit, or at least hint at gurgling, when doing the 'R', now). However you pronounce it -- I find it hard to have any kind of empathy at all for rec
835.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Briefly, by simply eliminating the rent-seeking laws of zoning density restrictions and also eliminating overuse of historic landmark status, market forces will take care of the rest. Unfortunately he doesn't make a coherent argument
836.
The Attention Merchants review – how the web is being debased for profit(theguardian.com)
1 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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Head of Japan's top ad firm to quit after new recruit's death from overwork(theguardian.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
838.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
The painting is from 1960; the SDPB blogpost is from 2015. Either way, seems relevant on the anniversary of the December 29, 1890 massacre -- and in view of recent events, especially so.
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Oscar Howe's Wounded Knee Massacre, a Rarely Seen Masterpiece (1960)(sdpb.org)
1 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|1 comments
840.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
So are you suggesting we rip out (all but the upper-crust of) the brownstones, and put in glass boxes as high as we can build them? And that even if we did -- that there would realistically be any way to ensure that even a significant port

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